Research degrees

A wide range of postgraduate opportunities are available within the Faculty of Engineering.

We have an international reputation for research achieving high scores in the latest UK Government Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), which makes this an ideal place to pursue a research degree.

To search for a research opportunity enter a keyword into the search box, this is linked to the University's database of research areas or visit our research page. You can also visit our School research degrees web pages.

- Computing
- Civil Engineering
- Electronic and Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Process, Environmental and Materials Engineering

As a research student within the Faculty of Engineering:

- You will join over 700 engineering and computing postgraduate students who come from all around the world.

- You will be supervised by academics at the cutting edge of their discipline who will challenge, encourage and support you.

- You will be able to make use of our excellent facilities across all activities.

- You will benefit from our strong industrial connections with major collaboration both in the UK and overseas. In addition to our participation in the Worldwide Universities Network, the University is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research intensive UK universities.

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The University's postgraduate research brochure provides an overview of postgraduate research at Leeds.